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Office action responseUpload the office action and the application it was mailed against. Every rejection is read on its own terms, every cited reference is retrieved and read at the column and line the examiner relied on, and the amendment and the arguments come back drafted against what those references actually say. With them: the interview agenda, and the ground where the examiner’s reading is weakest.
$299 per office action · any volume · never trained on, deleted when you ask
The action reads Nakamura at column 3 as teaching the second threshold. Nakamura sets a single threshold and says so at line 44. Argument drafted on the reference as written, with no amendment needed.
The objection is right. Amendment drafted from paragraph [0028], which was already in the specification as filed, so no new matter.
Prong two is met by the calibration limitation the action passes over. Argument drafted to it, with the 2024 subject matter guidance example it follows.
What to put to the examiner, in the order that settles the most: the misread passage first, the 112 concession second, the amendment you would accept last.
You already know what the action says. What takes the afternoon is reading the references again, deciding which grounds to fight and which to concede, and writing it up.
Claim by claim, in marked‑up form, with support cited by paragraph from the specification as filed so nothing reads as new matter. Where a dependent claim carries the limitation that clears the ground, it is rolled up and the scope it costs is stated.
One argument per ground, built on the retrieved reference rather than on the action’s characterisation of it. Where the examiner has read a passage for more than it says, the response quotes the passage. Where the ground holds, it says so and amends instead.
What this response is likely to draw, what an interview would settle faster, and what the alternatives cost: an after‑final submission, an RCE at $1,500, an appeal. The forecast uses the art unit’s own allowance rate, not an average across the office.
Every reference the action cites is retrieved and read before a word is drafted. An argument that misstates a reference is worse than no argument, because the next action will quote it back to you.
against the $2,300 to $4,000 you bill for each response, and the $1,500 in USPTO fees for a first RCE. Patly Examiner, at $349, is the version of this that arrives before the rejection does.
Per office action. No seats, no plug‑in, no minimum.
Ordered one at a time, or all three with the examination as the filing‑ready bundle at $599. See what each one returns, or the full practitioner price list.
The office action as it was mailed, and the application it was mailed against. If the file also has your earlier response or an interview summary, send that too: the arguments are drafted against what has already been argued, not from a blank page.
Yes. Each cited reference is retrieved as the published document and read at the column and line the examiner pointed to. Where the action characterises a reference as teaching something the document does not teach, the response says so and quotes the passage.
$299 per office action at any volume. There is no block rate because there is no volume discount to give: each action is read on its own record.
Yes, and it says plainly when an amendment would not be entered after final and what that leaves you: an after-final submission, an RCE at $1,500, or an appeal. The USPTO fee for a first RCE is $1,500 and $2,860 for a second.
You do. Patly drafts, you revise, and the paper goes in under your registration number. Patly is not a law firm and does not file anything you order on this page.
Upload it with the application it was mailed against. The response comes back drafted, for you to revise and sign.
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